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Following a series of mergers and takeovers, the principal successor businesses to the company now trade as WFEL ( formerly Williams Fairey Engineering Limited ) manufacturing portable bridges, Spectris plc and as FBM Babcock Marine Ltd
It is proposed to change the company's name to the Fairey Co. Ltd., and to concentrate general engineering activities in the Stockport Aviation Co. Ltd., whose name would become Fairey Engineering Ltd.
* Fairey Engineering Ltd, Stockport, General and nuclear engineering ;
However, these businesses were disposed of in 1986 as part of Pearson wishing to concentrate on core activities ; acquired by Williams Holdings they became Williams Fairey Engineering Ltd.
These were captured by some of the most prestigious names in the UK aerial survey industry, including Fairey, Huntings, Simmons, Clyde and BKS Engineering Surveys – all part of Blom Aerofilms ’ s UK heritage.
After the end of aircraft production the Heaton Chapel works became Fairey Engineering Ltd and began production of medium and heavy engineering including portable bridges for military and emergency services use, notably the Medium Girder Bridge.
The company became Williams Fairey Engineering in 1986, and was then taken over by Kidde part of the American giant United Technologies Corporation.
Production was therefore invested in Fairey Engineering Ltd but by 1962 this had been transformed into a 50 / 50 joint venture with the British Aircraft Corporation ( Holdings ) Ltd known as BAC ( AT ) LTD, with offices at 100 Pall Mall, London SWI.
In 1960, Fairey announced an agreement between Fairey Engineering Ltd. and the Del Mar Engineering Laboratories, Los Angeles, California, to distribute a range of subsonic and supersonic towed target systems ( RADOP ) for air-to-air and surface-to-air guided weapon training in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Commonwealth and the UK.
The Weapon Division of Fairey Engineering Ltd was responsible in the UK for the Jindivik Mk 2B Pilotless target aircraft.
Fairey Engineering had the sales agency for all countries outside the US, and was also been appointed by the Australian Department of Supply's to assist in the introduction of the Malkara to operational service and to design and produce modifications.
The £ 89 million contract was awarded in August 1965 to Atomic Power Construction (' APC '), a consortium backed by Crompton Parkinson, Fairey Engineering, International Combustion and Richardsons Westgarth.
Swingfire was developed by Fairey Engineering Ltd and the British Aircraft Corporation.
In 1986 Fairey Engineering was taken over by Williams Holdings and became Williams Fairey Engineering Ltd.

Fairey and Ltd
* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.
C. R. Fairey and the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., was awarded £ 4, 000 for work on the Hamble Baby seaplane.
On 13 March 1959 Flight reported that Fairey Aviation Ltd was to be reorganised following a proposal to concentrate aircraft and allied manufacturing activities in the United Kingdom into a new wholly owned subsidiary called the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd.
* Fairey Hydraulics Ltd, Heston, Hydraulic power controls and filters for aircraft ; – Sold in 1999 to a management buyout, name changed to Claverham Ltd, bought in 2001 by Hamilton Standard.
* Fairey Nuclear Ltd, Heston, Nuclear components and light engineering ; see also Dungeness nuclear power station
* Fairey Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;
* Fairey Filtration Ltd, Heston, Industrial filters ;
* Fairey Winches Ltd, Tavistock, Vehicle overdrives, winches and hubs ;
* Fairey Marine Holdings Ltd, Hamble, Management company ;
* Fairey Marine ( East Cowes ) Ltd, East Cowes, Ship and boat building ;
* Fairey Exhibitions Ltd, Hamble, Exhibition stand contractors ;
* Fairey Marine Ltd, Hamble, Boat building and repair ;

Fairey and also
Shepard Fairey and Invader ( artist ), who Guetta discovers is his cousin, are also in the film.
Notable for the design of a number of important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet, it had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.
In March 1949, the company undertook repair and overhaul work for the Royal Canadian Navy on the Supermarine Seafire and the Fairey Firefly and later the Hawker Sea Fury and also undertook modification work on the Grumman Avenger.
Fairey of Canada also developed a component and instrument design and manufacturing organisation.
The Fairey company was also involved in the early development of pilotless aircraft which led to the development of radio controlled pilotless target aircraft in Britain and the United States in the 1930s.
Fairey Australia also displayed an aerodynamic test vehicle, described as a " three-inch winged round.
* March 10 – Fairey Aviation test pilot Peter Twiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta 2, also becoming the first person to exceed 1, 000 mph ( 1, 610 km / hr ) in level flight.
Boulton Paul also built the Fairey Barracuda and did conversions of the Vickers Wellington.
The squadron also operated a few old Fairey Gordons for night patrols in Egypt.
" Andre The Giant Has a Posse " is also the title of a 1995 documentary short by Helen Stickler, which was the first documentary to feature Shepard Fairey and chronicle his influential street art campaign.
827 Naval Air Squadron was also stationed at Yeovilton operating Fairey Albacores and later Barracudas starting in May 1943, becoming the first squadron to receive Barracudas in any substantial number.
Fairey Albacores of the Royal Navy dropped flares to illuminate targets for Vickers Wellington medium bombers and for the artillery ; also, the minefields that were thought to be thin turned out to be deep.
Brum also produced Spitfire s, Hawker Hurricane s, Fairey Battle light bombers, Mercury and Pegasus aero engines, Short Stirling four-engined heavy bombers and Avro Lancaster s during the Second World War.
Fairey, the former Deputy Minister of Education, the then-current provincial Director of Industrial and Technical Education and also the Regional Director of the Canadian Vocational Training Program.
Later renamed the Fairey Technical Centre, in addition to previous disciplines it also housed classes for industrial design, art metal and jewelry, and even dance.
It was also used in gun turrets, such as the dorsal turret in the Bristol Blenheim, the nose turret in the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the rear turret of the Fairey Battle ( see photo at top ).

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